Originally from Chicago, Ken currently resides in Bel Air, MD.

Ken Karlic studied architecture, painting and graphic design at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, and he received a BFA in graphic design in 1986.

Ken is a founding partner of the Baltimore-area firm Splice Design Group, with clients including the Guggenheim Foundation and Smithsonian Institution. He is a weekly instructor at Chesapeake Fine Art Studio in Stevensville MD and he is a member of the Mid-Atlantic Plein-Air Painters Association (MAPAPA), a Signature Artist Member of Baltimore Watercolor Society and a Signature Artist Member of Noyes Museum of Art at Stockton University in New Jersey.

Ken calls his style, "sophisticated chaos," where an accurate drawing gives way to an expressive painting. His works have a basis in the representational, but often dissolve into some level of abstraction.